{"id":76,"date":"2019-06-28T10:05:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T17:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cinemagear.com\/blog\/?p=76"},"modified":"2025-04-30T11:41:33","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T18:41:33","slug":"the-d-flex-at-galatic-innovations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinemagear.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/28\/the-d-flex-at-galatic-innovations\/","title":{"rendered":"The D-Flex at Galatic Innovations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"731\" data-id=\"77\" src=\"https:\/\/cinemagear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/1-dflexandfalcon-1024x731.jpg\" alt=\"A view of the of the restored Dykstra-Flex camera crane and model Millennium Falcon on display at the AMPAS Galactic Innocations event.\" class=\"wp-image-77\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cinemagear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/1-dflexandfalcon-1024x731.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cinemagear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/1-dflexandfalcon-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cinemagear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/1-dflexandfalcon-768x548.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cinemagear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/1-dflexandfalcon.jpg 1070w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-id=\"78\" src=\"https:\/\/cinemagear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/2-GalactcInnovationa-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"A view of the of the restored Dykstra-Flex camera crane and model Millennium Falcon on display at the AMPAS Galactic Innocations event.\" class=\"wp-image-78\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cinemagear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/2-GalactcInnovationa-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cinemagear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/2-GalactcInnovationa-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cinemagear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/2-GalactcInnovationa-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cinemagear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/2-GalactcInnovationa-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cinemagear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/2-GalactcInnovationa-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-id=\"79\" src=\"https:\/\/cinemagear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/3-GalactcInnovationa-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"A close-up of the Millennium Falcon model built by Sean Sides on display at the AMPAS Galactic Innocations event.\" class=\"wp-image-79\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cinemagear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/3-GalactcInnovationa-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cinemagear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/3-GalactcInnovationa-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cinemagear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/3-GalactcInnovationa-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cinemagear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/3-GalactcInnovationa-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cinemagear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/3-GalactcInnovationa-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-id=\"80\" src=\"https:\/\/cinemagear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/4-GalactcInnovationas-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Richard Bennett standing in front of the restored Dykstra-Flex Camera Crane at the Galactic Innovations Event\" class=\"wp-image-80\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cinemagear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/4-GalactcInnovationas-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cinemagear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/4-GalactcInnovationas-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cinemagear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/4-GalactcInnovationas-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cinemagear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/4-GalactcInnovationas-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cinemagear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/4-GalactcInnovationas-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Dykstraflex made its first public reappearance at the Academy Science and Technology Council&#8217;s Galactic Innovations event last night after decades in storage. I am thrilled to have been instrumental in bringing this amazing piece of equipment back to life. My thanks to Joe Di Gennaro, Gene Kozicki, Joe Lewis, and Miles Lewis for their tireless help in getting the Dykstraflex ready for this event. Special thanks also to Sean Sides for letting us use his magnificent Millennium Falcon model.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dykstraflex made its first public reappearance at the Academy Science and Technology Council&#8217;s Galactic Innovations event last night after decades in storage. I am thrilled to have been instrumental in bringing this amazing piece of equipment back to life. My thanks to Joe Di Gennaro, Gene Kozicki, Joe Lewis, and Miles Lewis for their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[78,80,79],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-restoration","tag-dykstra-flex","tag-restoration","tag-star-wars","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemagear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemagear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemagear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemagear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemagear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cinemagear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2543,"href":"https:\/\/cinemagear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions\/2543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemagear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemagear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemagear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}